Job Details

Salary : $3,649.00 - $6,566.00 Monthly
Location : New Orleans, LA
Job Type: Classified
Job Number: CRT-2025-211733-PW
Department: Culture Rec & Tourism-State Museum
Opening Date: 08/12/2025
Closing Date: 8/25/2025 11:59 PM Central

About this Job
The Louisiana State Museum's collections and educational programs stimulate awareness and appreciation of our state's rich and diverse history and culture.
The Carpenter Master performs general complex carpentry work involving the construction, alteration, repair, or maintenance in historically significant Museum buildings. Performs complex and detailed carpentry work on the Museum displays to include construction of museum galleries, display cases, and exhibit areas which require a high degree of precision. Build other wood items to include furniture and cabinets for specific use.

Minimum Qualifications
One year of the required experience for the following minimum qualifications must have been on-the-job experience:

Three years of experience or training in the carpentry trade.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.
Job Duties and Other Information
Job Duties:
•Will be responsible for the repair and/or installation of locks, windows, and door glass and other security-oriented devices.
•Use table saw, power saw, joiner, wood lathes, planners, drills, sanders, and other carpentry equipment and tools. Maintain same to include clean, sharpen, repairs, and other general maintenance as required.
•Fit, cut, and finishes sheetrock; installs, fits, and cut paneling, plywood, frames, blinds, shutters, and miscellaneous wallcoverings.
•Acts as lead worker to other trades involved in complex construction jobs such as museum exhibit installation.
•Performs other related work as assigned
Position-Specific Details:Appointment Type: This is a fulltime position probational appointment; current classified permanent State employees may be required to accept a probational appointment.
Work Schedule: This position will work 40 hours a week; travel and overtime may be required.
Location: State Museum, New Orleans, LA.

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the "" link and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. *

The Office of the Lieutenant Governor and the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism are participants in the E-Verify system for identification and employment eligibility purposes.
Louisiana as a State, is a Model Employer for People with Disabilities.
For further information about this vacancy contact:

Pacee Wallace

Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism

1051 N. 3rdStreet

Baton Rouge, LA 70802

Phone: 225-###-####
Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity to make a difference through public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:
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Parental Leave - Up to six weeks paid parental leave
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Holidays and Leave - State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

• New Year's Day
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
• Mardi Gras,
• Good Friday,
• Memorial Day,
• Independence Day,
• Labor Day,
• Veteran's Day,
• Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement- State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

• Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (). LASERS has provided this video to give you more detailed information about their system
• Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (),
• Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (), among others